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I just tried it out. Clean design, looks smart and runs fast enough. It found a bunch of my papers. One important thing: I can't find a way to give/get formal

I just tried it out. Clean design, looks smart and runs fast enough. It found a bunch of my papers. One important thing: I can't find a way to give/get formal references to the papers. This means I can't use any of the papers I find here without googling to find the text (or if I'm lucky, BibTex) of its conventional reference. This is such a glaring omission that I wonder if it was intentional. Does anyone know? Also, scribd rendered PDFs look like hell, and the scribd frame captures scrolling events. If the frame doesn't fit in a browser window (which it doesn't by default) you have to move the pointer in and out of the frame and scroll in both places to read a page of the paper. yuk.

RichardPrice 15y ago
We're shortly going to switch to using Scribd's HTML5 embeds, which will eliminate the double scroll bar that you see when viewing a paper (the iframe scroll bar and the browser scroll bar). We should be switching to that in the next few weeks after we've ironed out a few kinks. Our goal is to make a really beautiful reading experience. We have a few fields for each paper (title, abstract, other info etc), but I agree that we could have more. As we build out the platform, this is definitely an area that we'll be developing.